Longmint: Feet

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The most famous set of tracks in the area tells a dramatic story: a massive herd of sauropods (long-necked giants) moving steadily south. Among the deep, round impressions of their feet are the lighter, quicker prints of carnivorous theropods. Paleontologists believe these meat-eaters were stalking the edges of the herd, waiting for a baby or sickly adult to stumble. longmint feet

Here is a text covering that subject: Just a short drive north of Denver, in the plains shadowed by the Rocky Mountains, lies the unassuming town of Longmont, Colorado. But 150 million years ago, this landscape was a very different world—a hot, semi-tropical Jurassic sauna. And the creatures that roamed here left behind proof of their passing that we can still touch today: the legendary "Longmont Feet." It seems you might be referring to which

When you look at a cast of a "Longmont Foot," you aren't looking at a simple dent. You are looking at a slab of sandstone that holds the three-toed, claw-tipped imprint of an Allosaurus or the elephantine, nail-less puddle of a Brachiosaurus . Some of these feet measure nearly three feet long. To stand beside one is to realize that a creature the size of a house once walked exactly where you are standing, its weight pressing mud into stone. And the creatures that roamed here left behind